Chronicle-1978

three-year Hotel Management Course, for which he gained his Diploma in 1977. Thereafter he began National Service in the S.A. Navy, as Midshipman and Gunnery Officer in the S.A.S. Johannesburg,at Simonstown. A.H.(Tiny) Doidge(40-41)is kept very busy as market ing manager at Leyland Head Office in Jobutg,especially in their merger with Sigma. He wrote "1 attended the K.C.O.B. Meeting last week (June), but the Committee are finding it hard to keep intereest going. Old Boys of recent years do not appear to have the same feeling for their school as we had. Of course it is much younger school than most, and perhaps it is necessary to accelerate the projection of our image so that all these young blokes will relate more strongly when they leave". As a marketing manager, Tiny ought to know the technique. He has undertaken to spread the gospel. L. (lindsey) Dyson (44-47) is an Accountant at Kokstad. His son was recently at Kearsney,conspicuous in the line-outs. He is keenly interested in the work of his AngUcan Church, and states plainly "Civilised Society without Chrisitan behef is like a car without petrol - it can only run downhill". He watched the Hilton match at Kearsney on the sad afternoon which saw the sudden death of "Bertie" Nel (Staff 1944-69). M.T. (Mike) Eastwood (46-49), who was personally decorated as a King's Scout by King George VI in 1947, has had a lifetime in Engineering. He has worked on the P.K. le Roux Dam, the Hendrick yerwoerd Dam,and is busy in the Drakensberg Pumped Storage Scheme, as consultant Engineer to Escom for the excavation and stabilisation of the underground works, and for the design of nearly 454 kilometres of tunnels. We are told that the underground pump house is the size of two rugby fields, and twenty storeys high."Civil engineering" he says "is a fun-profession; makes one feel like a kid with a meccano set." M.H. (Michael) Fienberg (60-64), who helped to break records by gaining seven A's in the Matric in 1964,con tinued with a B.A. (Hons) degree in Economics, with special reference to Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. He joined Methfe, Cape Town,in 1970, and in 1974 became a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in England. A rare feat, for there are very few actuaries in South Africa. He has also become an associate member of the Society of Actuaries in the USA. He is now an Assistant General Manager of Metlife, and the company's valuator in terms of the Insurance Act. He is stationed in Pinelands, where .several other Old Boys are to be found. S.T.(Stan) Fish (47-50), in charge of Methodist Youth work in the Cape Area, visited his brother Ken at Kearsney in July and looked us up,a visit to be repeated later. His Cape travels and contacts are so extensive that he appears to know all the world down there. He is doing a good job of work, and welcomes visitors to 9 Nursery Rd,Rosebank. A.M.(Bob) Foss(27-33. Head Prefect) is now in semiretirement and living at Drummond,.so is often able to come across to the school for various functions. He and Reg. Richards (26-33) like to recall the longest minute of their lives when, as undergraduates in "Charley's Aunt" (1931) they had to pick up the conversation at the split-second timing of the return to stage of Charley's Aunt (quickly changed back into mufti) himself. "Ah, here he comes" - but he didn't come. His clothes had come unstuck somewhere. The two actors stood petrified on the stage not knowing what to do. "Hang, man, he hasn't come," said Bob. "Hang, man, what shall we do?""Hang,man,"said Reggie "Let's put on the gramophone". This article of furniture stood in the comer, though it is doubtful whether such a thing existed in 1892 when the Play was written. So they rushed to the corner and turned it on. The music con tinued after Charley's late arrival, and formed a back ground for the following conversation. That one minute must have felt like an hour, and is well remembered by the writer ofthese notes. Mention of Bob Foss reminds me that his home,Duguza House,was one of the prestige homes in a rather derelict Stanger of long ago. He and his parents and two sisters gave me many evenings of entertainment, all the more appreciated as they had to come and fetch me,for I had no car. 1 bought my first car in 1936 (a V-8 coupe), went to Stanger to get a driver's hcence, passed the many convolutions required of me, then drove to Duguza House to celebrate - and took their front gate post out. I don't think it was ever repaired. The entrance was too narrow,anyway. Enquiries re the activities of R.W.(Roy)Friday(39-46) revealed the unhappy fact that he passed away in 1975, aged 45. His widow related to the great pride he always felt at having been so long associated with the school. We hear that O.L.(Owen)Griffiths (57-61) is living in Guildford, Surrey, and commutes daily to London for his work with Consolidated Goldfields. His brother Dr M.L. (Mervyn) is Medical Superintendent of the former Mission Hospital at Thaba Nchu. F.R.C(Eric)Groom(37-40),who is so well remembered by his contemporaries for his tremendous hitting at cricket, and fleetness of foot on the wing (which got him into the Natal side), is now content (with much enthusiasm) to play bowls. A faulty hip greatly reduces his mobility. We all feel deep sympathy for him in the continued illness of his wife, a source of great concern to him and his four "children". He figures in a 1937 Form Group of20 boys,of whom no fewer than seven gave their lives in the War: G.S. Boyd, B.J. Eaton, G.E. Weston, J.R. Lund, E.H. Lowe, A.J. Munro, and N. Chambers. Surely an unjust pro portion for so small a form. In addition L. Jordan died ot illness and B.G. Scheffer was killed in a motor accident. Of the balance, we have completely "lost" F.C. Bentley, C.H. Cuthbertson, D.N. Crowder, and K.I.F. MacDougall. H.N. (Harold) Groom (44-47) was World President of the Junior Chamber ofCommerce,and a member of the Kearsney Board of Governors. He now lives in Somerset West and commutes to Pinelands as personnel officer with the S.A. Mutual. He attended the annual ASSOCOM meeting in Maritzburg in October, and managed to putin a couple of hours on the local campus. He speaks and writes feelingly on the pressures in Big Business, the (lowing of the adrenalin, the risks of strokes and coronarics and emphysaemia. Big Business men now regularly indulge in heavy exercise to get rid of the adrenalin and learn to relax. He tells of the situa tions which arise when men get put into posts which they are not strong enough to hold, and who "take it out"of their inferiors by way of compensation. H.G.(Harold)Hackland(30-33)has long been a stalwart 94

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